Thread: Awkward words
View Single Post
Old 07-12-2016, 12:23 PM
  #67  
GrammieJan
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: AR/NM
Posts: 358
Default

Originally Posted by SewingSew
It's "shut off the light" where I'm from. When I lived in Virginia, they " parked the car in the dooryard," whereas I park the car in the driveway. In some places, there are hoagies. Up north there are grinders or subs. Where I"m from, there are submarine sandwiches. In Ohio, they had pop. In Virginia, they had tonic. And in the Carolinas, we had pepsi-cola (or a "drink")..
My Mom always called it Cold Drink. (Arkansas). Most common use these days around here (NM or TX) is Coke...that means any type of soda.
GrammieJan is offline